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No; 758,540. PATENTED APR. 26, 1904.

J. L. LEE. BRINTERS GALLEY}.

APPLICATION rum) SEPT. 10. 1901..

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UNITED STATES Patented April 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES L. LEE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 758,540, dated April 26, 1904.

Application filed September 10, 1901. Serial No. 74,951. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES L. LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Galleys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to that class of galleys or devices employed for retaining a form or part of a form or one or more columns of type or linotypes while the balance of the form is being set up or for reserving same for future use; and my invention has for its primary object to provide a galley with a movable end wall capable of being adjusted with relation to the length of the galley, so as to hold the types or slugs firmly in position.

Another object of my invention is to provide an adjustable end wall of this character which shall be capable of being applied to galleys of various widths; and a still further object of my invention is to provide an adjustable end wall which shall occupy but the minimum amount of space lengthwise of the galley, whereby its use will not occupy any material amount of space within the galley required for the types or slugs.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts by which the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved galley, partly broken away. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of a galley of greater width than that shown in Fig. 2, illustrating the manner of adapting the improved adjustable end wall thereto; and Fig. 4. is a similar view of a galley of less width than that shown in Fig. 2, illustrating the manner by which the adjustable end wall is contracted for adapting itself to the galley of less width.

The galley employed in my invention is an ordinary fiat tray having fixed longitudinal or side walls 1 and a fixed end wall 2, while the end of the galley diametrically opposite the wall 2 is entirely open; but the types 3 are firmly held in position and prevented from slipping out the open end of the galley or from falling down by means of an adjustable end wall which in the particular example of my invention shown in the drawings consists of a fiat strip I, preferably composed of fiexible material, such as thin sheet metal bent into a tortuous 'or Zigzag form and extending entirely across the galley from one'side wall to the other, the zigzags or waves running up and down, so as to afford depth to the end wall and support the types, the usual lead 5 being interposed between the strip 4: and the types, and inasmuch as the zigzags of the strips 4 cover a considerable portion of the depth of the lead 5 it will be seen that the latter will be supported both at top and bottom.

In order that the strip 4- maybe firmly secured to the galley, while at the same time capable of being adjusted longitudinally thereof, so as to accommodate columns of matter of various heights, the ends of the strip are bent up inthe form of grips or clamps 6, which embrace the side walls 1.

Should the galley for which the particular adjustable end wall 4: 6 is designed be a little narrower or a little wider than the galley to which it may be desired to apply such end wall, the strip 4 may be elongated by stretching it, as shown in Fig. 3, without materially affecting its'function as a support for the types or slugs, or should it be desired to shorten the strip for application to a narrower galley its convolutions may be pinched together, as shown in Fig. I.

With a galley thus constructed it will be.

seen that the end wall 4 6 may be readily slipped along the side walls of the galley to accommodate more or less types, and owing to the firm grip which the end wall has on the side walls of the galley and to the fact that it is supported or attached to both side walls the end wall may be comparatively narrow longitudinally of the galley and as a consequence occupy but a minimum amount of the galleys surface.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A printers galley provided with a Wall adjustable in a direction transversely of said wall, and flexible and extensible in a direction longitudinally of said wall but inflexible transversely in a plane parallel with the surface of the galley, substantially as set forth.

2. A printers galley having an adjustable Wall consisting of a tortuous strip capable of endwise extension and contraction, substantially as set forth.

3. A printers galley havinga tortuous strip extending thereacross and adjustably secured thereto for supporting the types or slugs therein, substantially as set forth.

4. A printers galley, having a tortuous strip extending thereacross and provided with a clamp or clip engaging the side wall of the galley, substantially as set forth.

5. A printers galley, having a tortuous strip extending threacross and provided at each end with an upwardly-extending clip or clamp embracing the side walls, substantially as set forth.

6. An adjustable end Wall for aprinters galley, consisting of a tortuous strip of flexible material, having a clamp or clip at the end thereof for engaging the side wall of the galley, substantially as set forth.

JAMES L. LEE.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. SCHROEDER, BURTON S. HANSON. 

